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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has reached a new low. That was a ridiculous attempt at political point scoring in the face of the brutal facts-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It is all very well smirking and being smug and self-congratulatory, but that is not the help that families in the country need-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Public representatives from the Government and Opposition parties have nowhere to tell people to go because there are no homes available in our communities. There are no affordable homes, no homes for rent and no homes for sale. This is the failure of the Taoiseach's Government. It is a testament to the failed policies of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and of their over reliance on a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----when the Taoiseach's own Government colleagues, let us not forget, in Fianna Fáil, was the party which crashed the economy in the 2007-11 Government. Let us not forget that. We have had seven years of prosperity since 2016, but-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----the Taoiseach's party and Fianna Fáil have patently failed to deliver the infrastructure we need, particularly the houses our communities need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has lost the rag.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: While households are struggling to buy basic goods, we are seeing companies reaping record profits. We know that food shopping costs are expected to increase by an additional €1,200 for people this year alone. While no one denies the inflationary effect of the pandemic and of the war in Ukraine, the reality is that we are seeing very serious profiteering from large corporations which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [13426/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for that comprehensive report on the constructive visit by the US President, Mr. Joe Biden, to Ireland last week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. In the president's speech in the Oireachtas, and in his other speeches, he made some welcome and positive interventions in seeking to further the peace process and ensure support for the Windsor...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 17. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [15095/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: When will the Cabinet committee on health be reviewing or considering the report by Maura Quinn into the proposed secondment of the former Chief Medical Officer, CMO, to Trinity College Dublin? In our view, the report raises a number of serious issues about dysfunction at the heart of Government. First, there was a total lack of proper processes in the appointment as outlined. Second,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 21. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place of the Strategic Foresight and Strengthening Policy Development research project, jointly overseen by his Department. [15093/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In light of yesterday's judgment by the Special Criminal Court, I think we would all agree that organised crime is a key strategic policy concern across Irish society. I commend the work of the Garda in the wake of the Hutch-Kinahan feud and note there have been no murders in the last four years in that regard. I also note that two convictions were secured in the court yesterday. The...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party are glad to support this motion, which is the latest in a series of Opposition motions putting forward constructive proposals to address the housing crisis, a crisis that our President rightly described as a housing disaster. On 9 February we in the Labour Party tabled a motion with a series of constructive measures. We have supplied Government with proposed Private...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the vitally important issue of vacant homes and the vacant home tax. Labour is glad to support this motion from the Social Democrats and I commend Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his colleagues for putting this forward. As I said last night in the debate on the Sinn Féin motion, this motion is the latest in a series of constructive policy proposals...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise the plight of workers who face their livelihoods being taken away from them. I draw the Minister's attention to a report from Mr. Donal MacNamee in The Business Poston Sunday about plans to lay off 225 workers from the Irish offices of Indeed, the online recruitment platform. We understand that as many as 640 jobs at Indeed are likely to be affected by the global cuts being...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I express my thoughts, sympathies and solidarity with the two workers injured following the explosion at the Stryker plant in Carrigtohill, County Cork, on Tuesday. We understand one of those workers remains in a critical condition on life support. I extend my solidarity and that of my Labour Party colleagues to the workers and their families. My office and that of my colleague, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Union engagement.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Union engagement is a separate issue.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 31 January 2023, his views on the need to use the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute reported crimes against humanity. [17023/23]